A recent survey of US mobile phone users by Artificial Life has revealed that 46 per cent use their devices for entertainment purposes, illustrating evolution of the mobile phone as a prominent communication tool to a must-have, multi-purpose consumer gadget.The survey of 200 respondents shows that 33 per cent of individuals use their phone for […]
Channel 4 is scaling back its digital radio plans, with only one of three of its originally planned stations, E4 Radio, now confirmed for launch. Channel 4 conceded that it is scaling back its investment in radio "in line with its proposal to reduce its cost base by £100m (E126m) in the next two years". […]
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has become Panasonic Corporation, and its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange has been changed from MC to PC. The name change also took effect for some of the group companies that used the names Matsushita or National. Along with the name change, Panasonic is working on the […]
Philip Hunter asks whether User Generated Content is the future of TV or just another outlet for blogging addicts, and suggests that Fixed/Mobile convergence can offer a few lessons
IPTV will have to deliver HD, is it ready? Joe O’Halloran finds out
Increasingly, service providers, be they telcos or pay-TV operators, are looking to add media mobility to their portfolio. Euromedia on offer in their region, and we speak to one quad-play operator who sees great benefits from the multi-platform approach correspondents report on what's
Content Security in a multi-platform, ';my media' world, remains a key concern among content providers and platform operators. CA, DRM, Watermarking, all play their part. Can an ideal world of IP-driven seamless interoperability ever be compatible with copyright protection? Colin Mann finds out.
RealNetworks and major film studios are off in a legal battle over a new product allowing consumers to make computer copies of DVDs that the studios claim is illegal. "RealNetworks’ RealDVD should be called StealDVD," Greg Goeckner, executive vice president and general counsel for the MPAA. "RealNetworks knows its product violates the law and undermines […]
Ofcom has said that BSkyB has "market power" over live Premier League football and Hollywood films and has launched a consultation that could force it to make the content available to all other pay TV operators at more competitive prices.Publishing the findings of its review of the UK pay-TV market, Ofcom said that BSkyB has […]
In more bad news for BSkyB, the company may have to sell even more of its stake in ITV than it was expecting after the Competition Appeal said an original antitrust ruling may not have been tough enough.With ITV's share price at record lows this would crystallize yet more losses on the deal for BSkyB. […]